
NATO's American commander in Afghanistan has sounded the alarm that the Afghan mission could fail unless there is a significant boost in troop levels, and a new counter-insurgency strategy to defeat the Taliban.
The leaked report by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, head of the 100,000 U.S. and NATO forces in the country, also calls for stepped-up recruitment and training of Afghan troops and police, as well as more American troops on the ground to protect Afghan civilians.
But the excerpted report, published...